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Open government is the governing doctrine which holds that citizens have the right to access the documents and proceedings of the government to allow for effective public oversight. In its broadest construction it opposes ...

The Information Daily Why more policy makers should adopt crowdsourcing The Information Daily Being at the forefront of a world-first development isn't a common occurrence in business, so when the United Nations (UN) approaches with the idea of...

SXSW: Tentsquare Launches First Crowdsourcing-Based Production Studio Deadline.com EXCLUSIVE: The rush to build new filmmaking ecosystems based on crowdsourcing is still in full effect, as industry-watchers have seen with the high-profile success...

White House calls for 'bold, ambitious' open government projects Fierce Government 24 memo (.pdf), Todd Park, the federal chief technology officer, called on agencies to "introduce bold, ambitious new open government initiatives," relating to...

The Pentagon's Mad Science Is Going Open Source Wired Most of these DARPA-backed projects are on GitHub, the popular code hosting and collaboration service that has come to symbolize the type of non-hierarchical collaboration celebrated by open...

Parliamentary disobedience in the the eurosceptic UK strengthens democratic oversight in the EU. On 4 March, an op-ed article by professor Deirdre Curtin of the Open Government in the EU, entitled “How the British are ...

TPA awards 2 lawmakers Open Government Award Knoxville News Sentinel (AP) — Two lawmakers from eastern Tennessee have received the 2014 Open Government Award from state newspapers for opposing efforts to weaken the state's open records and public...

Five Key Features of a Project Designed for Open Collaboration Linux.com (blog) Structuring your bylaws and policies to ensure the proper powers and decisions are relegated to the proper governing body will help to ensure an open design endures.

Yesterday I participated in an information meeting at the Danish Ministry for Business and Growth related to an initiative around using open government data within business intelligence in the private sector.

Open data is putting fear into local government Diginomica In recent years, the central government in the UK has been involved in pushing an open data agenda, not only on its home turf, but also globally through the Open Government Partnership of...

Open IDEO launches international aid challenges Design Week IDEO's benevolent open innovation platform Open IDEO has teamed up with the Department for International Development to set up the Amplify programme, which is aiming to transform...

An open source platform that offers free downloadable blueprints, Paperhouses brings together a collective of top-tier architects from around the world who are giving away the designs to some of their most stunning projects.

These Women Are Building The Software That Quietly Runs The World Seattle Post Intelligencer A recent study found that 1 out 10 open-source programmers are women (about 10%), and that's up from 2007, when only 2 out of every 100 were women (about...

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